Middle East

"A zigzag that cannot be explained". That's how the right wing Israeli commentator Amit Segal summarized Netanyahu's decisions regarding the change of the security and entrance arrangements to the Noble Sanctuary/Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem. There's no doubt that the removal of the metal detectors and the infrastructure for security...

The "Strike of Freedom and Honour" is the name given to a mass hunger strike of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, which started indefinitely on the Palestinian Prisoner Day, 17 April. The prisoners are demanding the ending of discrimination on national grounds in prison and arbitrary detention without charge or trial...